Tommy morrison where is he now

Ratner stated to the contrary that the ban was indeed over a diagnosis of HIV as no boxer can be licensed in the state unless HIV negative.

Both sides will get the chance to air their views once the telephone proceedings finally get underway. World Boxing News managed to get thoughts from the mother of Tommy Morrison this week after her son was finally granted a hearing in Nevada. Accusations of a false HIV diagnosis will be heard on April 8th.

Morrison was stripped of his license and basically […]. In , Morrison fought an astounding 19 times, winning all of them, 15 coming via knockout. He caught the attention of Sylvester Stallone, who was having trouble casting his pupil-turned-enemy for Rocky V. But he saw something in Morrison. He was a good-looking kid that was articulate and could actually fight. Sly brought him in and cast him quickly. Morrison took six months off from the ring to do the film and when it was released in , his career exploded.

Upon his return to boxing, Tommy Morrison won his next seven fights, moving his record to , setting up his first heavyweight title fight with Ray Mercer in October Tommy Morrison got his first title shot in October against Olympic gold medalist Ray Mercer.

Morrison punched himself out of the fight very early and was out of gas by the fifth round. Mercer caught him and that was that. But Morrison came back. He won his next eight fights, all by knockout, and was given another title shot in , this time against George Foreman. That was Tommy. And then he started research on the Internet and started saying it was a conspiracy. He went in that direction and never looked back. Morrison was a prodigious puncher whose bid to fight in the Seoul Olympics ended at the hands of Ray Mercer, who later dealt him his first professional loss.

Along the way, Morrison became such a recognizable face that he was cast in Rocky V alongside Sylvester Stallone. Morrison won his first 28 professional fights, beating faded champions such as Pinklon Thomas along the way. Morrison was in line for a high-profile bout with Lennox Lewis when he was upset by unheralded fighter Michael Bentt in Tulsa, Okla. He was knocked down three times and the fight was called before the first round ended.

I'll be back. Morrison indeed came back, but he was never the same feared fighter. He beat a bunch of long shots and faded stars over the next couple of years before getting knocked out by Lewis in the sixth round. He'd been preparing for another fight that winter when his blood test came back positive for the virus that causes AIDs.